Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah what makes me laugh they come with the blue lights flashing do n't they ! |
| 2 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 3 | I , I mean they did on the farms . |
| 4 | They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend . |
| 5 | " I expect they think at the Lab that I exploit you . " |
| 6 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 7 | The light beams say the target moved forward 25 centimetres ; I say they curved through the air by 25 centimetres . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope they get to the top , but it will be difficult . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I know they live near the quay , and the cabbie would know of them ; they are well-known . ’ |
| 10 | I remember them coming through the shop once , want any cheap bananas ? |
| 11 | I heard them talk about the ‘ good creature ’ who did these ‘ wonderful ’ things . |
| 12 | I heard them whispering to the other sailors several times , but I did not suspect what they were planning . |
| 13 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 14 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 15 | ‘ I heard them scavenging along the road somewhere in the mist . |
| 16 | You see , to let you understand , this was maybe about four or five years after nationalization and prior to nationalization of course , was under the L M S , Street Station and were under the L M S and was under the L N E R. But when I arrived at , I heard them talking about the Callie see , the Callie railway . |
| 17 | I urged them to listen to the voice of their individual conscience . |
| 18 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 19 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 20 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 21 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 22 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 23 | I mean it it 's only external speakers that we should er I mean they come to the University for a day , I can set that up I mean we can do exactly the same at university . |
| 24 | I saw them gleam in the lamp-light . |
| 25 | ‘ I saw them spooning on the beach , ’ she added , rather wistfully . |
| 26 | I use them , but I keep them separated from the majority of plants by surrounding them with strips of glass siliconed to the tank base . |
| 27 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 28 | Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here . |
| 29 | I think they start on the eighteenth |
| 30 | I think they meet in the Road area and it 's called the Judges Guild . |